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counterdiscursive

counterdiscursive adjective: opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.

Adjective

counterdiscursive (comparative more counterdiscursive, superlative most counterdiscursive)

  1. Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.
    • All of their texts, which were written during the 1980s and 1990s, share an oppositional and counterdiscursive impulse through which they express the possibility of a community different from that offered by the dominant culture.2001, Petra Fachinger, Rewriting Germany from the Margins, page 5
    • Postcolonial analyses of cultural production study counterdiscursive practices in cultures affected by the imperial enterprise, such as the legacy of subjugation and resistance of the black populations of the Americas.2003, Dorothy E. Mosby, Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature, page 27

Forms of counterdiscursive

comparativemore counterdiscursive
superlativemost counterdiscursive

Origin of counterdiscursive

From counter- + discursive.

Words that rhyme with counterdiscursive

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Questions about counterdiscursive

What does counterdiscursive mean?
Counterdiscursive means opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.
What part of speech is counterdiscursive?
Counterdiscursive is an adjective.

Words near counterdiscursive in the dictionary

  1. counterdisciplines
  2. counterdiscourse
  3. counterdiscourses
  4. counterdiscrimination
  5. counterdiscriminations
  6. counterdiscursive
  7. counterdisposition
  8. counterdispositional
  9. counterdispositionally
  10. counterdispositions
  11. counterdisputation

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